Progressive Electronic music?

presdoug wrote: verslibre wrote: ^^I didn't know Jurgen did a soundtrack. Is it available on CD? It used to be, but it is long out of print.

The new cd by Arc (Umbra) is excellent.  I also had the pleasure to see these guys (Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve) live in November and that was a superb gig.  It gave me the chance to pick up a very obscure cd by Redshift too, so all the better.

Another tremendous electronic cd I got recently is Ulrich Schnauss' A Long Way To Fall.  He is not an artist that is on pa but if you know his music you'll agree he's a good fit (he is currently a member of Tangerine Dream, at least their touring incarnation).  If you like moody, atmospheric instrumental music with a slight Berlin School influence you'll probably like this.

^^I didn't know Jurgen did a soundtrack. Is it available on CD?

Since last posting here I picked up Vangelis - Invisible Connections. I remember being shocked when I first heard it about 20 years ago but actually its not too bad at all when you hear it on a decent hi fi. Still a bit weird though. I also got the remaster recently of Jarre's Rendez- Vous which has long been one of my favourite electronic albums. Sounds even better now and thankfully they have now straightened out the separation of tracks on the CD.

verslibre wrote: TeleStrat wrote: verslibre wrote: ^^My fave Synergy albums are Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra and Audion. Larry re-recorded some vintage Synergy pieces and issued them as as Reconstructed Artifacts, which is also a must. How do you feel about Sequencer?   Excellent! I like all of the Synergy albums (that includes The Jupiter Menace), but I like Metropolitan Suite the least because of the 80s synths.

verslibre wrote: ^^My fave Synergy albums are Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra and Audion. Larry re-recorded some vintage Synergy pieces and issued them as as Reconstructed Artifacts, which is also a must.

^^My fave Synergy albums are Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra and Audion. Larry re-recorded some vintage Synergy pieces and issued them as as Reconstructed Artifacts, which is also a must.

verslibre wrote: Get Vangelis' Soil Festivities if you don't already have it. That seems to be a good overlooked one from his discography.

Verslibre, only a fortnight ago did I rebuy a nice CD copy of it to replace my poor condition old vinyl LP of it! It's like discovering it all over again!

AEProgman wrote: Great review of Vangelis's album - The City by Michael (ABB)!  This album was a part of my many road travels in the early 90s and holds a special place for me.  At that time I was pretty much out of touch with the prog world except for a few electronic progressive albums and classical music. Not his best, but he went a little bit of new direction on this and the next album or two and it is enjoyable. Another great job Michael   (agree on Red Lights, that one annoys me ) http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=1348607

Hey there, my old friend Jim, thank you for your kind words! I only came to get that Vangelis album because an Ebay vendor I was buying some titles off said I could get one more CD included in the same package for the same price. So I bought that Vangelis one not really caring about it at all. So I was very pleasantly surprised that it's not only really very good (except for `Red Lights'! ), but frequently rather great!

A very welcome surprise!

The latest NODE album "Node 2" blew me away.